iPad incept date
For those living under a rock, a little device known as the iPad launched today. We’re talking to Apple.
View ArticleBeen Busy
It’s been a while between posts, fearless reader, and I don’t blame you if you’ve given up by now. We’ve [...]
View ArticleLarry’s right
Larry Ellison can never be accused of equivocating on cloud. For a healthy dose of reality TV, if you haven’t [...]
View ArticleAn Inconvenient Truth
We all agree it shouldn’t be, that it’s a basic technical pre-requisite for modern collaboration, and everybody has great ideas [...]
View ArticleUnplugged
In late March Informatics quietly switched off the legacy SDC (Secure Data Centre) and Marc was there with Operations Manager Joe [...]
View ArticleComputing Experience
Not sure anybody would call this work/life balance, but Tim Bray’s piece on life in the Googleplex portends workplace change [...]
View ArticleAutumn letters
It’s the season of harvest, and a great time to reflect on where we’re at with Project Mercury and the [...]
View ArticleTwitterversal
Twitter is an enigma to me. Compared to RSS/Atom and the more recent real time RSScloud standards it’s closed tech, [...]
View Article100 Days Together – blast from the past
Last week marked a milestone for me – the end of my first 100 business days at MQU. At the [...]
View ArticleOneNet. Wired.
Update: Senate Room, Executive Building, Macquarie University – 4 August 2010 – Project OneNetWired1 is officially acknowledged as complete by [...]
View ArticleVeni. Vidi. iPad.
We’ve been talking with Apple Australia since last year about iPad, and finally it shipped downunder at the beginning of [...]
View ArticleProduct v Project
A few ramblings on product v project… Product management is pretty much a new concept to Macquarie Informatics, and in [...]
View Article20,000. Served.
It’s 4am and I’ve just returned home from the now-traditional “Night In The Datacentre” held each semester to ensure the [...]
View ArticleRefinement
OK so Google Refine snuck up on me – had never heard of it when it was Freebase Gridworks. Spend [...]
View ArticleWherever. Whenever. However. Trust Datamart.
This week we’re publicly launching Datamart.mq.edu.au, a web supermarket for data that empowers our people to visualise, analyse and share [...]
View Article28 months later – Here we go again
A timeline visualisation of the many highlights of the year that was 2011 in tech at Macquarie University
View ArticleDeath by Routing
Tim Gentry, Managing Director for Avaya Australia and NZ asked me to come and talk about our experiences - upsides and downsides - with his key corporate data customers.
View Article888 days later – having a good time
Every year at February Informatics Town Hall we pause and reflect a little as we kick off the year ahead. [...]
View ArticleBorderless Boards
A presentation to Chartered Secretaries Australia about our green and borderless board paper distribution system
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